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An Islamist Egyptian woman holds a banner reading: "Islamic sharia law is peace and justice" during a protest by hundreds of Salafists for the enforcement of Islamic sharia law at Tahrir Square in Cairo November 9, 2012. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
CAIRO, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Thousands of Islamists rallied in Cairo on Friday to demand immediate introduction of sharia and called on President Mohamed Mursi to resist opposition to Islamic law.
Islamists, Liberals and non-Islamists have locked horns over what civic freedoms women, Christians and minority groups will enjoy under a new constitution being drafted by an Islamist-dominated panel.
The constitution is supposed to become the cornerstone of democratic transition after the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak last year. Without it, the country cannot hold elections to replace a parliament that a court declared void in June.
The Islamist camp is divided. Islamists on the panel are aiming to reach consensus over the constitution, but Friday's rally brought together groups with little representation on the body - including the Salafist Front, its political arm the People Party, the Gamaa Islamiya and its Building and Development Party.
Many waved banners with the words: "God's law is our constitution". The Saudi Arabian flag was seen flying over a sea of Islamist protesters. The Egyptian flag was missing.
"The people demand God's law implemented," chanted thousands of demonstrators.
Asked what implementing sharia meant for them, many said it involved eradication of corruption and loose sexual behaviour, modesty in men and women's dress, and improved living conditions.
Mursi's ruling Muslim Brotherhood, which says it favours only a gradual introduction of sharia, and the ultraconservative al-Nour Party refrained from participating. Both are well represented in the 100-strong constitutional panel.
"We are not coming out to oppose the assembly but to tell it and President Mursi that sharia must be implemented immediately not later. I voted for Mursi to implement God's sharia," said Hassan Abdel Maqsood from the city of Minya.
Another protester demanded a more unequivocal reference to sharia in the constitution. The current draft talks of implementing "the principles of sharia".
"We do not want the misleading word 'principles'. The assembly should not listen to the secularists and the small elite. These people have other motives and want the country to live in chaos," said Mohamed Salama of the Gamaa Islamiya.
Cairo sees demonstrations almost every Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, by a range of groups in the aftermath of the revolution that overthrew strongman Hosni Mubarak last year.
Pressure is mounting on the constitutional panel to finish its job by December 12. Should it fail, Mursi may have to use his legislative powers to find a way out.
Analysts say Mursi is torn between pleasing Islamist hardliners who voted him into power and gaining national and international legitimacy.
"President Mursi is in a bind and must please disparate groups," Ammar Ali Hassan, Islamist thinker and analyst, told Reuters.
"He cannot do it without changing his discourse. He tells liberals and the international audience that Egypt is a moderate, modern and civil state. But to his Islamist backers across the country he must say that sharia will be implemented."
Struggling to overcome disputes, Mursi has met party leaders and politicians from both Islamist and liberal camps to try to broker consensus over the constitution.
The Brotherhood's ruling Freedom and Justice Party had no majority in the last parliament without the backing of Salafist hardliners, added Hassan.
Mursi would lose his legitimacy as leader should Salafists vote "no" in a referendum for national approval to be held on the constitution once it is finished, said Hassan.
Members of the Brotherhood leadership have complained that rifts among Islamists could cost them politically ahead parlimentary elections. No date has been set yet for the vote.
Egyptians who oppose the Islamists say the country's civil laws already implement sharia.
"Look at marriage, divorce and inheritance laws. All of the country's civil laws are compatible with sharia. The protesters today have confined sharia to the application of penal (criminal) law," said Achraf Chazly, a 35-year-old lawyer. (Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy, Shaimaa Fayed and Reuters TV; Writing by Marwa Awad; Editing by Andrew Roche)


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About Me
- Russell Blackford
- Australian philosopher, literary critic, legal scholar, and professional writer. Based in Newcastle, NSW. Author of FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND THE SECULAR STATE (2012), HUMANITY ENHANCED (2014), and THE MYSTERY OF MORAL AUTHORITY (2016).
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Is religious freedom self-contradictory?
there is a built in contradiction in the place of religious freedom in classical liberalism: While religious freedom is a central element of classical liberalism, the ability of a state to function as a liberal democracy will collapse if a large majority of the population do not share a common basic moral and philosophical (and thus by implication theological) worldview. Thus, while religious freedom is a foundational element of classical liberalism, only a certain degree of religious conformity makes it possible.
Now, before going any further, I must observe what a recipe for intolerance and bigotry this is. I'll try to discuss it dispassionately in the paragraphs that follow, but you can be assured that I fully appreciate that it's morally repellent.
How does Shook respond? Quite sensibly - for example, by emphasising that what is required is not theological consensus but some degree of basic moral/philosophical consensus. As he says, these are not the same thing.
But that actually understates it. Sure, there has to be some consensus that we cannot, for example, just go around using violence to promote our own interests in social, economic, and sexual competition. The benefits of social life will be impossible unless there are some strong norms against that kind of violence. Given the scarcity of resources, there also has to be some sort of property system; whatever form this takes, it will need to be experienced as "fair" (in practice, this is likely to involve such things as some emphasis on effort and contribution in acquisition, while also a place for property to be transferred as a gift); and there will need to be a strong norm that property rights be honoured (which does not preclude, and may even require, the overlay of a scheme of taxes and transfers based on need and other relevant values). This level of basic agreement on certain sorts of legal and moral norms is, in fact, required for any society to operate. However, the reasons have nothing to do with theology and can be agreed to from almost any comprehensive worldview. Whatever their comprehensive worldview, nobody wants to live in a Hobbesian state of nature.
Generally speaking, we all have good secular reasons to support these sorts of norms and to socialise children into internalising them. Theology has nothing to do with it.
When it comes to issues such as whether homosexuality or polyamory or abortion or stem cell research or the use of contraception or IVF or reproductive cloning is morally wrong, however, the situation changes. It is not necessary for social survival and the benefit of living in societies that there be agreement on these things. The law can allow somebody who thinks one of these things is morally wrong to refrain from it, while also allowing those who have no such moral aversions, and who find these things good, to act on their own beliefs. In such a case, neither group of people is subjected to tyranny. The former are not subjected to tyranny because they are not forced to do anything that goes against their own morals. It would be a bizarre definition of "tyranny" to say that someone is tyrannised merely because she is powerless to stop others doing things she disapproves of. The latter group - the homosexuals, polyamorists, women seeking abortions, etc., are not tyrannised either. They are not prevented from doing what they want. (They might be tyrannised if their activities are legal but nonetheless lead to social ostracism, but in a society where there actions are not only legal but approved of by large numbers of people they cannot claim to be tyrannised. If social tyranny is too much of a problem, some specific laws may need to be enacted to ensure they can function in society.)
Human societies can certainly operate with no theological consensus, so long as there is even a fairly rough consensus on the norms required to protect such worldly things as life, limb, and property. Someone with a theologically-based morality may wish to see many things prohibited that are actually allowed, but she cannot complain merely because she doesn't get to use the state apparatus to control what others do. If she wants more than that, the rest of us may rightly regard her as unreasonable - she wants her own way not only in how she gets to behave but also in forcing others to do likewise.
Stook deals with a further argument:
If, however, there is fundamental disagreement among the populace about basic issues of right and wrong and what the purpose of the human person is, the victory of the other side will increasingly look to the defeated like an unacceptable tyranny, and the state will risk coming apart at the seams.
His reply is that this is essentially a fantasy, as no such fundamental disagreement is actually tearing apart the country that both bloggers are talking about, i.e. the United States of America. But I'd go further. It is quite possible for a society to get along with fundamental disagreements about such things as "what the purpose of the human person is". You could have half the population claiming that the purpose of the human person is to worship a particular god, while the other half denies that there is any "purpose" at all (though they may still think that life can be rich, personally meaningful, lived with zest, and so on). There is no reason at all why these two groups cannot co-exist in the same society. All that is required is that neither attempt to coerce the other to live in a certain way. They will, of course, also have to have some consensus about the need to refrain from violence, respect property rights (and legitimate redistributions of property through the official tax-transfer system) and so on. But that's already covered above.
In other words, it is indeed possible to have a state that does relatively limited things - protecting us from internal and external violence, establishing and enforcing a scheme of property, imposing taxes and redistributing wealth in the form of public programs based on such things as individual need - without anyone having to feel defeated or tyrannised. Of course, you may literally be defeated if you campaign for, say, the criminalisation of homosexual acts ... and your pet theologically-based campaign fails. But your "defeat "simply means that you have failed to coerce others, or to get the state to do it for you. It is bizarre to claim that you are, yourself, being tyrannised.
If your views are based on religious doctrine, you will have failed to impose your religious morality on others who don't share it. That does not, however, mean that they are tyrannising you or that your freedom to live by your own religious morality has been lost.
There are, of course, any number of complexities and ramifications to all this, but if there is any contradiction in classical liberalism, or in freedom of religion, the arguments that Stook refers to certainly do not establish it. Of course, as with almost anything in this domain, there are going to be some grayish areas, but some can be dealt with in a principled way, while others can be dealt with by means of the reasonable discretion of electorates and governments. Overall, the view of the world sketched above can be elaborated indefinitely to cope with real-world complications, and I see no reason why it should ever come apart - at least not under pressure from the crude arguments dissected in this post.
30 comments:
- Eamon Knight said...
Of course, some religionists do, in fact, assert that they are being repressed by laws guaranteeing rights for gays etc. Some people are just whiners who like running other people's lives, and religion gives them an excuse with wide social acceptance.
- 04 February, 2010 15:28
I agree largely with this thesis, but I do wonder about the examples of abortion and stem cell research. I personally don't share the worldview that species membership is either necessary nor sufficient for the attribution of moral value (and I'm a bit suspicious of those who do, tbh, or certainly would be if we ever encountered intelligent alien life, sentient AIs or uplifted dolphins.)
But if I did, if I really did think that embryos and fetuses were full moral persons, I would have great difficulty living in a society where their 'murder' was tolerated - in much the same way as I wouldn't tolerate honour killing or slave owning on the basis that if I don't like it, I don't have to do it.
The abortion & stem-cell cases, I fear, have to be won on their merits. Appealing to committed 'pro-lifers' to 'live and let live' doesn't really cut it.
- 04 February, 2010 16:12
'The law can allow somebody who thinks one of these things is morally wrong to refrain from it, while also allowing those who have no such moral aversions, and who find these things good, to act on their own beliefs. In such a case, neither group of people is subjected to tyranny.'
Just to clarify, I guess the argument would be that, while that statement is technically correct, a third group of 'people' is indeed being subjected to tyranny, and it is our duty to come to their defence.
- 04 February, 2010 16:15
- Unknown said...
^ Was about to write something very similar to what Colin said.
- 04 February, 2010 19:41
- Russell Blackford said...
So, gentlemen, if Catholics are going to feel tyrannised just because we don't ban abortion, what do we do about it? How do we respond? I don't think it's reasonable to feel tyrannised about something like that, and I do have some more to say about it, but meanwhile I'd appreciate your opinions. It may be that if they do have a reason to feel tyrannised by something like that - which doesn't coerce how they behave - it might be a case of so much for Catholicism.
- 04 February, 2010 19:50
- Unknown said...
I didn't mean to imply that RCs, or any other group who disagree with abortion law, are themselves being tyrannised - they aren't, not by any sensible definition of the verb - but rather, that they believe they are witnesses to tyranny, and of a particularly vulnerable group. As such (and while I think they are completely misguided in that view), it's probably unrealistic, and maybe unreasonable, to expect them to tolerate that perceived tyranny.
There are many strong pro-choice arguments re abortion, and luckily enough, several of them seem to strike chords with the populations of the UK, Aus and NZ. But for those who think abortion tantamount to murder, the 'if you don't like abortion, don't have one' line just will not cut it - any more than 'if you don't like slavery, don't keep a slave' would impress you or I.
- 04 February, 2010 21:01
- Unknown said...
You or me, even. Ahem.
- 04 February, 2010 21:02
- Russell Blackford said...
Sure, Colin, but I was addressing the crude argument that one side or the other must end up being or feeling tyrannised if there's deepseated moral differences in a society. I think that that argument is fallacious.
Similarly, I don't think the abolitionists in the ante-bellum South were tyrannised or that that is even how they felt. What was wrong with slavery was not what was done to abolitionists (such as tyrannising them) but what was done to slaves.
The abolitionists did, however, have perfectly good secular arguments against slavery. These involved, e.g., getting white people who had the social and political power to see black people as having inner experiences (hopes, fears, capacity for deep pain, grief, anguish and so on) much like their own. Once you get to that point, it becomes very difficult to justify treating people as simply property,let alone mistreating them in atrocious ways.
Again, I don't think that Catholics can claim that they are being tyrannised in any sense except a bizarre one, merely because abotion is legal (and I realise that you agree with me on this). But do they have a good secular argument to ban abortion? If all they have are very poor secular arguments (e.g. those based on potentiality) plus some theological arguments as to why it's a terrible sin (it destroys something that's in God's image, or that God has told us to value, or that God Himself places value upon, or whatever), and they then equate our refusal to take notice of them or let them have their way as being the same as us forcing them to live in tyranny, then I think they are taking a very unreasonable position.
Here, "unreasonableness" is just something like a disposition not to compromise fairly in the interests of harmony and social peace. They are asking that the state enforce their particular theological position, when it could, consistently with our welfare and social survival, just do worldly-motivated things (protecting us from violence, providing a reasonably fair property system, providing an economic safety net, etc.).
They definitely don't have any arguments analogous to the secular arguments against slavery. Take an early embryo to keep this simple, but the ground isn't much stronger even with a late-term fetus. It does not have any inner experience like ours. It's not even sentient. Destroying it is not going to harm the social contract (societies survive just fine with legal abortions, so that can't be the issue). It's certainly not like killing someone's baby - one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And you can't "tyrannise" something that has no will or hopes or emotions of its own.
Someone who takes an unreasonable position may be pissed off if we don't defer to it, but we cannot be accused of tyrannising them if we simply don't ban a practice that they consider sinful. We may be doing something that's bad by the standards of their theological system of morality, but the badness can't consist in tyrannising somebody, as the word "tyrannising" is usually understood.
- 04 February, 2010 21:57
- Russell Blackford said...
Of course, they may still think that abortion is bad for the same reason that they rationalise murder as bad (it's destroying something made in the image of God, or whatever). And they may still, as you say, not want to live in a society that allows this. So maybe they'll take the law into their own hands by murdering doctors, or they may try to mount a rebellion. I don't by any means think I've solved all the problems that can come up, but that doesn't entail that classical secular liberal is inconsistent, merely that some people have reasons, in some circumstances, by the light of their own theological or other worldviews, not to accept it. I don't want to be taken as denying that, and I don't think that classical secular liberalism need do so.
But again, how do we respond to those people? Surely not by deferring to them. Then again, suppressing their religion seems like overkill. I'm not proposing that we start jailing Catholics. There's a definitely a practical problem to respond to ... but the problem is of their making.
- 04 February, 2010 21:57
- Unknown said...
I don't think the Liberal position is inconsistent either, I just think it leaves a number of questions still to be answered (and, by the way, it's none the worse for that). If 'harm to others' is the only justifiable basis for intervention by the criminal law, then we still need to decide what constitutes 'harm', and who - for these purposes - qualify as 'others'.
If pro-lifers persuaded us that fetuses or even embryos were capable of being subjects of harm, then that wouldn't undermine the Liberal position; it would just make it more difficult to defend abortion on straightforward liberal grounds.
(In fact, it's interesting that anti-abortionists have quite often switched tactics to arguing that abortions harm the women who have them, but that's a different discussion.)
I agree with you that fetuses aren't the sort of entities that can be harmed by being destroyed, and that embryos can't be harmed by anything at all (though what I do to an embryo may some day cause harm to the person that it subsequently becomes). But IMO, two people could disagree about whether the harm criterion is satisfied in those cases, without departing from the liberal paradigm.
- 04 February, 2010 22:27
- Unknown said...
Btw, while I'm in Midnight Rant Mode, the 'liberal' position that really makes me squirm is the claim that, of course, no woman takes abortion lightly, and of course it's always an agonising choice for them.
Well, even if that were always true (which I doubt) how the hell does that make it less troubling? If killing a non-person is ethically permissible, then why should I be reassured by the thought that someone is suffering as a consequence? And if it isn't ethically permissible, if it actually harms the fetus, then compunding that harm with distress to the woman is hardly improving matters.
- 04 February, 2010 22:29
- Russell Blackford said...
I agree, and I think that socialising girls or pressuring women to think that it should always be an agonising choice is a Bad Thing. I hate that kind of propaganda even for the pro-choice cause.
It may legitimately be a difficult choice in some cases, e.g. if the woman does actually want to have a child but maybe not right now, but that's because of her particular values.
I'd like to encourage girls to grow up thinking that it is perfectly okay to have an abortion, if it helps their lives go well (or as planned), and there need be no psychological agony about it. I hate the way we, as a society, put emotional pressure on young women. As you say, a fetus is not the kind of thing that can be harmed by being destroyed, and a pre-sentient embryo can't be harmed at all, in the relevant sense of "harm". That really ought to be the end of the story for young women who don't buy into some religious theory of what's wrong with killing. They're not really doing anything wrong, so let's make it as easy on them as possible.
- 04 February, 2010 22:50
- Daniel said...
I agree with everything you have said about abortion issues above.
But I think there's another issue that hasn't been discussed. What if a religious worldview did not include, or in fact directly opposed, the requisite moral precepts for a free and civil society? What if a particular religion held that it was immoral to stand by and watch as others committed sin? A member of that religion would obviously be restricted in actioning those particular tenets. I sometimes feel disingenuous when claiming that religious freedom is an integral part of a liberal society, because "religion" is pretty much synonymous with "shit someone made up". It needs to be declared plainly that the freedom to practice one's religion ends the second it impinges on another's basic (secular) rights.
- 04 February, 2010 23:32
- J.J. Emerson said...
I believe Daniel nails it. If a religion doesn't violate the harm principle or the golden rule (insert your preferred secular moral principle here), then I think religious freedom is not self-contradictory.
However, certain very common strains of religion do seem to define themselves in such a way as to set themselves at odds with freedom of religion principles. However, this conflict is a general feature of such combative religions that puts them at odds with many other belief systems (religious or otherwise), not just with the "classical liberal" state.
In this case, I think it takes a very disingenuous person to argue that the problem is with the "classical liberal" state or any number of other religions and not with the original offending religion which has such combative doctrines.
- 05 February, 2010 00:00
- Eamon Knight said...
(In fact, it's interesting that anti-abortionists have quite often switched tactics to arguing that abortions harm the women who have them, but that's a different discussion.)
Tangential to the main topic, but:
This, by my definition, is where "pro-life" (which I take to be an honest but mistaken position) starts turning into "anti-woman". There are potential negative sequelae to all of the possible outcomes of an unplanned pregnancy -- but surely the choice of risk to take should be worked out by medical ethics and informed consent as applied to the individual situation, not as a blanket legal restriction of those choices. The latter implies that women are too stupid to decide for themselves.
- 05 February, 2010 02:44
You could have half the population claiming that the purpose of the human person is to worship a particular god, while the other half denies that there is any "purpose" at all (though they may still think that life can be rich, personally meaningful, lived with zest, and so on).
There is quite a bit of historical evidence that shows that the part of the population that worship a particular god find it very difficult to refrain from coercing the out group.
- 05 February, 2010 02:44
- Paolo Scimone said...
Many major religions have a pretty strict sense on the 'laws of the universe' based on a moral code given to them by 'God'. The current world ethical view appears to contradict that stand at times and at others, aligns with it. The basis of these codes are often based upon their original doctrines written for a society many years ago.
I would think that a reinterpretation of many such doctrines would be necessary within such religions. I actually find it quite arrogant of many religions believing themselves to be the carriers of "God's Word" and I feel that the view of religionists is to disregard any moral or ethical precepts and base their views on this 'obscure' God's law (whatever that means).
In our world, there appears to be no ultimate authority regarding religious truth, hence the apparent disparity.
Many atheists believe that the world will eventually 'grow up' and will 'face facts' but it's these very 'facts' which are the issue at hand. When we all get this part figured out, our moral and ethical POV will most likely change or at least be clarified.
Paolo Scimone
- 05 February, 2010 04:16
- Lisa said...
As a concrete example of what others have mentioned about religions and believers not accepting the "live and let live" liberal model, in Islam there is a hugely important duty known as "enjoining the right and prohibiting the wrong" (amr bil-maroof wa nahi an al-munkar), which is found in the Qur'an several times and is the subject of a huge literature by scholars. This is buttressed by a saying of Muhammad (among other such sayings): "Whoever amongst you sees an evil, he must change it with his hand; if he is unable to do so, then with his tongue; and if he is unable to do so, then with his heart."
The problem, obviously, is how, exactly, are the concepts "right"/"good" and "wrong"/"evil" defined? Traditionally, anything against shari'ah such as alcohol, unlawful sexual intercourse, blasphemy, etc., was an "evil", while commanding the people to pray and live according to shari'ah was "good." Of course, it could also apply to more defensible things like not ripping off widows and not killing people in cold blood, but obviously there's no distinction between the two classes in religious law.
This is the justification for the mutawa'een in Saudi Arabia and the religious police in Iran giving women a hard time for being "immodestly dressed" and arresting people with alcohol, etc. The Taliban would have said the same thing -- they were merely performing their duty of enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong.
The liberal concept that everybody should live and let live as long as nobody is harmed is, obviously, not something that everybody in the society will subscribe to, so how do you deal with that? What if religionists believe that the misdeeds of the whole community will be punished by the deity, and therefore it's their sacred moral duty to extirpate "evil"? How does a liberal society deal with that without violating the right to religious freedom? Hence why religious freedom can be self-contradictory, as in a hypothetical case where in the name of religious freedom the Muslim religious authorities were permitted to follow their religious law and execute apostates from Islam.
- 05 February, 2010 07:57
- Russell Blackford said...
Just to try to be super clear on this, I'm not saying that the classical liberal model can accommodate any religious or moral viewpoint, no matter how unreasonable. Maybe no one thinks I'm saying that, but just in case ...
The point is (a) that this is not an inconsistency with the classical liberal model, since it acknowledges that there will be specific views that it can't accommodate, and (b) if your view isn't being accommodated it doesn't follow that you are being subjected to some kind of tyranny, merely that you have one of those worldviews that cannot find the resources to adopt a "live and let live" policy, and (c) the classical liberal model can, in fact, accommodate a whole lot of positions, which is maybe the best that we can expect.
I think, in other words, that if some radical Catholics who can't tolerate abortion being legal therefore can't stomach living in a society based on classical liberal principles, that's a problem ... but not an inconsistency with those principles. The radical Catholics have to work out what they are actually going to do about it (murder abortion doctors?), and we have to work out what to do about them.
The classical liberal model doesn't demand that we tolerate the intolerant, because it doesn't hand out absolute rights of freedom of religion, etc. It just invites everybody into a framework of mutual tolerance and limited government. There's then a separate problem of what to do with those people who don't want to enter the framework. If they are just talking, maybe we still tolerate them. But if they become violent, things look a bit different.
Lisa, this partly answers your question. How do we reconcile dealing with people who won't play nice with religious freedom? But the model doesn't give absolute religious freedom, come what may. It says that the state should not impose a particular religion. It also says that the state should not suppress a particular religion merely because it believes the religion to be mistaken. But it doesn't have to tolerate a religion that won't play along and starts to enjoin its followers to harm others. The state could have perfectly good secular reasons to suppress a religion that goes around harming people in an effort to push its theology.
Locke, you'll recall, thought there were good secular reasons not to tolerate Catholicism or atheism. He was wrong on both counts, as it turned out, but the idea that there may be secular reasons to suppress religions that won't accept the model is built into the model itself. If there were a very dangerous sub-set of Catholicism that started to kill abortion doctors or if there are certain sub-sets of Islam that want to impose sharia law by force, we don't have to tolerate them. We should, however, be very reluctant and hesitant before we get to the point of trying to suppress a religion, because it could obviously be a recipe for disaster. But it's not totally ruled out in principle.
Another way of putting this is to say that your religious freedom is an outcome of the model, and is conditional on your acceptance of the model itself (perhaps you can criticise the model, because freedom of speech is important for all sorts of other reasons, but if you try to overthrow the model by violence we don't have to tolerate you).
Maybe all this was clear to everyone, but I'm tired this morning and maybe not understanding some of the points y'all are making. If I'm stating the obvious, just ignore me.
- 05 February, 2010 11:00
- Russell Blackford said...
Wow, that was wordy! Maybe I should just have said, "The state must always act for secular reasons such as preventing secular harms to its citizens. It can't act on the basis of its own preferred theological view. Thus, it can't suppress a particular sect for believing in its preferred god, but it can suppress a sect for carrying out human sacrifice."
But one thing I'm painfully aware of is that there are grey areas as to what counts as secular harm, and what constitutes not accepting the model and so on. Thus, the model never works perfectly or uncontroversially. But I don't think that's necessarily a flaw with the model - maybe this sort of imperfection is inevitable with any model. And the model does work well enough, most of the time, for us to muddle along with it.
Damn, I'm getting wordy again. But I just want to emphasise the important point that the model does not hand out absolute rights to freedom of religion. It gives all the sects a chance to be tolerant of each other and to refrain from committing secular harms. Perhaps no sect will comply perfectly, but most will comply subtantially. If one doesn't, we are free to work out how to deal with it. In the extreme we can suppress it.
"Tolerate the intolerant" is not a maxim of classical liberalism. At the most we may have to give the intolerant freedom of speech, but even that can be constrained in extreme situations, and if they want more than that ... potentially, WHAM!
- 05 February, 2010 11:16
They definitely don't have any arguments analogous to the secular arguments against slavery. Take an early embryo to keep this simple, but the ground isn't much stronger even with a late-term fetus. It does not have any inner experience like ours. It's not even sentient.
Is the ground much stronger for a newborn infant? Many people believe there are good secular arguments for e.g. vegetarianism and veganism, which aren't too dissimilar to arguments against late-term abortions. There are also pro-life-ish arguments based on the role of men in sex, and their 'claim' to a fetus they helped create. Inner experience and sentience are not obviously the only morally valuable things, even on secular grounds.
It's not always so easy to distinguish secular from "theological" arguments, and there is no one obvious "secular" position on most issues. (I notice, for example, that you didn't include consensual incest or zoophilia in the list of liberal OKs in your post.) I realize now I'm more-or-less agreeing with your last post Russell. I'm just suggesting that abortion is one of those grey areas.
- 05 February, 2010 12:21
- Russell Blackford said...
Nice comment, Anonymous. Would you please (I ask nicely) establish some kind of identity so we can tell you from all the other Anonymouses?
Fortunately for people who do legal and political philosophy, the framework doesn't solve everything. What counts as a good secular argument? Should we prohibit only those actions that are directly (in some intuitive sense) harmful (as Mill apparently thought), or is it legitimate to prevent indirect harms (as Locke apparently thought)? How should we deal with conflicting secular interests of various kinds? How far should we go to guarantee economic welfare (providing positive rights to the unemployed and so on)? How paternalistic should we be?
The framework leaves a lot of room for debate about these things, but I think that's probably a strength rather than a weakness. It means that a lot of views can fall within the framework. I'm a fairly strict Millian, for example, but I don't think the classical liberal framework requires that we go as far as Mill. E.g. it allows space for debate about how far the state should be entrusted with dealing with indirect harms: not very far in my view, and I do think it can get pretty damn illiberal if the state prohibits things because of remote and speculative harms, but all that can be argued out.
As for bestiality (or zoophilia) and incest, though, it depends partly on whether we think the welfare of (non-human) animals is a legitimate secular reason to prohibit it. Even if we do, a lot of zoophilia may not harm the welfare of animals. If someone get can an orgasm simply by cuddling a cat in a way that the cat finds pleasant, I don't find anything immoral about this, let alone anything that the law should interfere with.
As for incest, there's a lot that's been written about the origin of the incest taboo (Westermarck, etc.). It looks to me as if the real issue is child abuse. We need laws that will work in protecting children from sexual abuse. If some of our laws against incest are not needed to accomplish that, then those laws should be repealed. I don't think that concerns about genetic deformities carry much weight here (we allow people with a bad genetic "hand" to reproduce; and in any event, there's always contraception). What seems clear though, is that "my holy book forbids it" is not a good reason, from the point of view of the framework, to ban incest.
(It might conceivably turn out to be a perfectly good reason to regard incest as immoral, but (a) I very much doubt that it'll turn out that way (i.e. that the holy book is reliable about moral issues) and (b) the state is not there to identify and impose whatever is, all things considered, the true morality. It's role is more practical and less ambitious.)
- 05 February, 2010 13:50
- Lisa said...
I didn't think your comment was that wordy at all! And yes, I agree with you that there's no reason for a liberal society to be so tolerant that it undermines its own reason for being.
However, there are a couple of questions I still have. Namely, at what point does the religion or the expression of its views become a "threat" to the liberal society, and who decides this? A few disaffected Muslims calling for the overthrow of the government and its replacement by a caliphate is unlikely to be a real threat, and so such speech is often tolerated, even if strongly denounced.
More threatening may be the seemingly more "reasonable" religious people who discuss among themselves how corrupt and awful the present social order is and how it needs to be changed ASAP by the election of politicians who will implement their views and nominate congenial Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe v. Wade and other rulings they don't like. (I recall more than one article in "respectable" religious journals insinuating that the Supreme Court had forfeited its legitimacy with Roe and other rulings.) Given the huge number of people in the US who are at least somewhat amenable to this view, this must give one pause. But using the state to limit or censor or suppress such opinions would mean suppressing the views of as much as half the US electorate, depending on which polls you believe, and that's certainly not a pleasant prospect. What if fewer than 50% of the electorate really "buys in" to the idea of a liberal society? This issue also comes up in the case of, for example, the citizens of resolutely secular Turkey electing an Islamist party to run the government.
There's also the multicultural and relativist viewpoint, which holds that a liberal society shouldn't "impose" its values on the communities it comprises, but let them alone to practice their own faiths and customs. It's a bit odd but not at all unusual to find both right and left united against Enlightenment and liberal ideals!
- 05 February, 2010 16:18
- Lisa said...
Ah, yes, I found it. The infamous First Things (a conservative Catholic journal) article in the November 1996 issue, "The End of Democracy? The Judicial Usurpation of Politics."
This is a concrete example of the kind of thing I'm thinking about, and mind that it isn't necessarily foaming-at-the-mouth fundies who might be inclined towards such a view -- "moderate" Catholics and other Christians may also find it plausible.
- 05 February, 2010 16:29
- Daniel said...
Russell and others,
Thanks for keeping this lengthy and interesting discussion going. I never meant to imply it was being held that classical liberalism meant that we must tolerate the intolerant.
I was just expressing my discomfort in openly supporting religious freedom (which I do), when in many public contexts people take this concept to entail deferral to religious authority on moral and social issues. When you hear religious freedom mentioned in the Australian media, it is often during an abortion, gay marriage or human rights discussion - and it is usually by some fancy-hat-man or other claiming that a progressive reform or policy is impinging in their particular religious freedom.
Add to that the fact that when religious belief is made subservient to secular values, the notion that religion is not the absolute revealed truth of the omniscient creator of the universe is implicit. I don't know if I feel comfortable in saying to someone's face that they are free to practice their religion, when I know full well that they are only free to do so when their beliefs have no real social consequences. It's sort of condescending in a way - "you can delude yourself as much as you want, but the rest of us know you are full of shit". I'd be more happy if we openly admitted that religion has no authority on matters such as the proposed human rights charter.
See this from Cardinal Pell in The Australian:
"A federal charter of rights would be used, he said, as it was in Britain, to harass those manifesting religion in public life."
Well, yeah, too fucking right it will - in certain circumstances.
- 06 February, 2010 00:18
- Daniel said...
Just read the first couple of paragraphs. Seems to be a pertinent read:
Michael Kirby on religious freedom and the law - FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS APOSTASY
- 06 February, 2010 00:19
I think the "but what about religions that MANDATE coercion?" question is easily answered. Here's how:
Religious freedom doesn't mean people are free to do whatever they want simply because it's religious.
Rather, religious freedom means that a practice can't be banned simply because it's based on a religion or belief that the state disapproves of.
- 06 February, 2010 11:56
- Russell Blackford said...
Lisa, I always think there are grey areas. You can't produce a mathematically precise answer, and some of these things have to be decided through the democratic process. No amount of philosophical reasoning or sociological data will tell us where to draw the line even if we apply the same principles.
I actually think it's quite legitimate for different political parties to take different views on how direct a harm has to be. However, I also think that there are strong reasons to take the Millian approach of looking for direct harm. In my mind, that never rules out a case for some exceptional and compelling circumstance to ban something that causes indirect harm. Directness is not a fetish. I suppose, though, that I'd want to know, for example, what compelling evidence there is that, in circumstances relevant to the jurisdiction concerned, this thing actually causes harms that are so inevitable and of such magnitude that no less coercive approach is possible. I'd also like to know of any negative side effects, e.g. the side effects from turning bad people into martyrs.
I'm not going to be persuaded by arguments such as: "This is morally repugnant or shocking or outrageous on its face; therefore it must be causing some kind of indirect harm that can only be dealt with by prohibiting it." I often see arguments like that from, for example, anti-pornographer campaigners.
I don't think we can be selective about this. Many people want to silence robust criticism of Islam for just these reasons - it's horrible (by their lights) so it must be causing harms, and these must be worse than any harms that will come from banning it.
But I can well imagine circumstances where we might have to ban the Nazi Party, and the fact that an organisation is unequivocally religious (not just quasi-religious like the Nazi Party) doesn't change anything. As Anonymous says, the state should not ban a religious group for being theologically incorrect, but if the case is strong enough it can ban it in order to protect people's lives. Whether the case actually is strong enough in any particular situation is a matter of judgment on which reasonable people can differ - even if, as I say, they are applying the same principles.
- 06 February, 2010 13:43
This essay gives a unique Understanding of the basis of a universal ethic.
- 09 February, 2010 15:19
- Paolo Scimone said...
Not too bad an essay, in principle, though the wording could be a little better. The word "right" should be omitted entirely from that discourse and the end of point 2 appears to be an excuse for supporting a personal Christian point of view, not really related to the rest of the essay. If you cut "right" or "rightness" or replace "moral" with "ethical", most of it reads a lot better.
The criminal reasoning within the essay is based on this apparent need to justify "rightness" (must be from the US as we don't have such extreme capital punishment here).
Globalisation may almost inherently imply a new form of ethical responsibility. For the sake of the world, it may be necessary to forget certain fervour, bearing in mind the importance not to create "just another sect".
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10 Money saving tips
On the other hand, I've argued with my friends that unless you're a very plain eater, cheap-paleo will be a lot more affordable than non-paleo. I probably safe a lot by simply not buying anything to drink or not buying candy etc. That said, there's still a lot to fiddle with.
Here's a random list of things I do to keep eating healthy somewhat affordable.
1. If you're going to freeze it, buy it frozen.
Selling stuff with a short best-before date is a risky business. In the shop where I work we end up binning quite a bit of meat. And ofcourse this shows in the price. If you're going to freeze it anyway, avoid paying for things your shop throws away.
2. You kill it, you eat it.
No discrimination on what part of the animal to eat. Liver is yumm, bones make good broth and the longer you need to cook it- the tastier.
3. Go lean.
That said, consider what you eat meat for. It's the protein. And since meat is expensive, make sure you're getting enough bang for your buck. Normally just add extra fat with oils and save the fatty meats for treats.
4. Organic & grass fed/finished?
Remember that post from MDA about the lean vs fat discussion?
A single organic chicken breast costs about 7 euro's. Non-organic I can get a whole kilo of chicken breasts for that price, and even more if I'd buy it frozen. So, another benefit of eating lean, is that you can skip having to sell your kidneys to eat a piece of chicken.
When you go for your fatty treats like bacon you want it organic/grass finished anyway because of the nitrates etc.
5. Shop often, preferably atleast every other day.
There's always some sort of discount on vegetables. Shops buy big, they have too much so they put it on sale.. and that's when you buy it. Just make sure you use it quickly. They also sometimes put as much as a 50% discount on meat when it has reached it's best-before date. It might not be optimally healthy, but hey, you gotta make ends meet.
Obviously you should be walking or riding a bike while doing this shopping....
6. Keep your pantry and recipe book well stocked.
When you come accross one of those sales mentioned, you have to be able to actually use it. This means having a recipe, and not having to buy some expensive ingredient to go with it. That's where your pantry and freezer come in!
7. Go to the market at closing time.
Dutch market's and farmers market's aren't exactly the same, but probably it holds true that the sellers want to get rid of their stuff. At the end of the day prices for perishable stuff go down, sometimes a lot. Buy it all, eat what you can and freeze the rest so that when you find a discounted piece of meat you've got something to eat it with ;)
8. Worry about saving big, and not so much about saving small.
The best eggs cost twice as much as regular eggs, so buy the best eggs. A good organic can of tuna can be 8x more expensive than a cheap can with just water and salt added. Get the cheap tuna.
9. Consider wether you're actually saving money..
Related to the above, buying a farmed non-organic piece of salmon doesn't mean you're saving. You're just wasting money on a not so good but still expensive product. Get frozen coalfish or something like that when you're going cheap and get a good, fresh, wild piece of salmon when you want a treat. You'll still be better off.
10. Don't eat so many fruits, berries and nuts.
Seriously, you don't want to do it anyway because of omega balance issues, sugar issues, way too many calorie issues... and now you can also add the 'way too expensive' issue.
Fruit and fresh berries are like paleo-candy. Before going paleo (or whatever) you didn't eat candy everyday either, did ya?
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165 comments:
- Lemur said...
Great post, Naomi! Lots of good stuff to keep in mind.
I started buying frozen blueberries in the winter because they're so expensive, even when they're in season. There's like 2-3 weeks in summer when they're cheap. I've rarely tried frozen veggies, so I may need to experiment more with that.
I wish my area supported walking & biking, but it really doesn't. Hardly a sidewalk in this town, although one main street does have a sidewalk that you often see people walking up & down to exercise, but it's residential, no shopping. The grocery store is only a mile from me, but on a busy 4 lane highway with cars going 60-70 mph. I do try to park far from the store & keep a brisk pace as I shop.
Sometimes I hate that our stores are so massive, but in the long run it's better that I have to trek a quarter mile across the store for one thing since I couldn't trek to the store to begin with. Lots of people walk inside our pitiful mall, too. It's indoors, out of the sun (which I'm sure all the retirees here try to avoid), and there's no traffic to get killed by.
Good advice on the fruits, berries & nuts. I probably eat too much, but they have replaced far worse foods, and I've been letting myself get used to the paleo switch slowly (better than burning out). This is also to help my husband acclimate without feeling like he's being forced to change.
But now that fruits & nuts are my normal "candy" I probably need to scale it back a bit. I may try to wait until autumn though, I can't see myself avoiding the summer fruit, especially since we got a farmer's market last week (finally!). I showed up two hours after it opened only to find out every bit of produce was gone in ten minutes. I did sit & chat for an hour with the vendors who were still there, I want the local farmers to know & like me.
And yes, I probably did eat candy everyday back when I ate garbage. Definitely sugar in some form everyday. I still struggle with sugar, it's so damn addictive.
- June 9, 2008 at 7:03 PM
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- June 10, 2008 at 5:06 AM
- Marc said...
Great list Naomi!
I find grass fed ground beef a very affordable and healthy meat option.
Cheapest of all is catching my own fish.....but often I go home empty handed ;-)
Het is fast een goed sfeertje in Holland, nad de wedstrijd van gisteren. Ik mis A'dam een beetje tijdens dit soort tijden. ;-)
- June 10, 2008 at 1:36 PM
- Naomi said...
Thank you Lemur!
Frozen veggies aren't nearly as tasty as fresh ones, but with proper prep it'll be good for emergency's, I'll post a recipe sometime soon.
It's a bit of a shame that I don't live in america, since that's where most of my readers come from.. Holland doesn't have farmer's markets, and it's very, very walking & biking friendly. Special roads and all that. No place without a sidewalk. I'm a lucky girl. But hej, good for you just working with what you've got :)
To be honest, I'm still a bit of a sugar junky myself.. It's tough to beat. We'll get there someday ;) And don't avoid the summerfruit! just cut back a little, I eat every other day or so. (it's so expensive) oh and eh.. enjoy it! mmmyumm.
- June 10, 2008 at 10:04 PM
- Naomi said...
Hargin, that seems like an awesome website :) Very usefull. thanks for the link!
Marc, ground beef is the most affordable grass fed product there is, which is why you find it used so much here :) well, part of the reason, it also just tastes good.
De sfeer is super! Hup holland hup! ;)
- June 10, 2008 at 10:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
Great source of low fat protien = Ostrich! it has sooo much more protien and so little fat compaired to beef (and even has a lower fat content than chicken)...its also cheap...buy it in bulk and freeze it!! - Available from your local farmers market.
Protien powder! - Some of you may find this expensive however if you are realy short on cash it is the way to go. 2-3 Spoons of protein powder can sort you out for your RDI (Recomended Daily Intake) of protein.....a decient size tub can cost around 20-25 euro's and last u around 2-3months......u will save in the long run! mix it with a freshly made fruit smoothie or somthing!
- June 12, 2008 at 1:40 AM
- Anonymous said...
It would save lot of money. But side by side we should take care of our health also & take a nutritious diet.
- June 18, 2008 at 7:29 AM
- Alexandra said...
Of any fruits, berries might actually be the best, low glycemic and pretty low sugar (relative to other fruits). I'd cut out other things like mango, pineapple, bananas, etc., before worring about berries. Unless you are eating tons of them each day, they should be okay.
Nuts are a hidden danger, though! So many calories!
- June 20, 2008 at 2:29 PM
- Naomi said...
Completely agree that that would be best for you health wise AT22 :) A real shame berries are so expensive, otherwise I would eat them more often. Luckily you can save up for them by eating less bananas etc ;)
- June 21, 2008 at 2:25 AM
- Unknown said...
Hey Naomi,
I've been eating Paleo for a couple of weeks now and I posted about it on my blog. Your money saving tips were awesome in making this happen, I hope you like my post about it!!
- September 11, 2008 at 12:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hey, nice post. I'm also a student in Amsterdam (just made my 1st month). Do you have any tips about shopping hear, with a balance between quality and price. I haven't found any frozen fruits for example and also nuts seem really expensive.
- September 27, 2008 at 7:54 PM
- Naomi said...
Hi Daniel! I can get into specifics since you're in Amsterdam..
Get your chicken from the freezer at Lidl's, very cheap stuff. For nuts, try a turkish or similar shop, buy in bulk. But simply don't eat too much of it, because it'll always be expensive.
Sunflower seeds are cheap, if not the healthiest pick.
For veggies and fruit go to the Saturday market.. you do have that in A'dam right? At the end of the day just buy whatever is left and chop it up for use during the week. Don't neglect the chopping up straight away, because otherwise It'll just go bad and you spend money for nothing.
Don't worry about organic too much, first just stop eating any crap like grains- and then when you're richer you can go ahead and be all picky.
It's real hard to find frozen fruit, I get mine from germany- but that's quite a trip for you. Try your Natuurwinkel, I know the one in Deventer has them.
Also get your gehakt there :)
Whatever you do, don't be a perfectionist!
Hope that helps, Good luck!
- September 27, 2008 at 8:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
Greatly appreciated your post, Naomi, as well as the subsequent comments.
I found the only way I could avoid overdoing my nut consumption was to limit myself to unroasted, unsalted ones. Mainly almonds and the occasional handful of walnuts. They just don't taste good enough to binge on. I'm working up to buying mixed nuts, in their shells, slow me down.
The only fruit I'm tempted to gorge on would be the mangos from the trees in my yard. Luckily the season is short....
Has anyone found a protein powder that could be considered paleo in spirit?
- December 5, 2008 at 4:52 PM
- Naomi said...
Thanks Dan,
it's funny how stuff that's good for you is often far less addictive, but still very tasty.. Shells are a good idea :)
The mangos totally make me jealous- and dont worry about indulging on those! You gotta live and enjoy things too, they sure wont kill you ;)
Good luck with the search for protein powder, afraid i'm completely clueless there.
- December 13, 2008 at 1:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
Go lean??
On a paleo diet??
You need to research your information a bit more. fat is not bad and you certainly don't want just the protein!!
- December 20, 2008 at 4:22 AM
- Naomi said...
The point is that you can get your fat from less expensive or less toxic sources. If you're not buying organic there are a lot of things mostly in the fat that you do not want. If you are buying organic it's pretty expensive, and that's why you want as much protein in it as possible. Eat some avocado or butter to go with it et voila.
Besides, it all depends on whether you do paleo according to cordain or not. I don't, but he sure tells you to go lean.
- December 20, 2008 at 2:30 PM
- slapdoodle said...
hello, i am a backpacker, for my job, i am also paleo, and i can't shop often. maybe once a week but most of my stuff has to last, since i am a wilderness ranger and there are noooo stores or anything near where i work. do you have any suggestions?
- July 3, 2009 at 3:30 AM
- Napier Bones said...
Great post Noami...
I've been trying to live in the more paleo way that I can; my main restriction is, in fact, the cost of some paleo-foods; but your suggestions are really key points that I'll apply (some I already do). By the way, You're gorgeous...
- July 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM
- Helen said...
hi Dutchies. I've been getting frozen berries from AH and if you sign up on their website from time to time they give you a 50 percent discount on these which is great. Great tip about the cheap nuts though - I will give my local Turkish shop a try!
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- George said...
I measure out 2 ounces of my homemade nut/seed mixture so I`m not tempted to keep reaching into the big jar.(wink)
Lots of calories but nutritional dense.It`s all about balance. I combine almonds, walnuts, pumpkin and sunflower seeds.Delicious.
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